THE LOSS OF THE RIPPLE.
QUESTION OF WIRELESS. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, August 12. The loss of the Ripple has raised the question of installing wireless on coastal vessels. Mr E. A. Shrimpton, chief telegraph engineer, said that the usual objection was made on the score of expense, as the apparatus would so 6eldom be required. It was suggested to Mr Shrimpton that a modified system might be used, which the ship's officers could work, but ho replied that unless taught while young, men could never pick up telegraphy proper! v. A set might be installed for £IOO or less, on which certain pre-arranged signals could be sent if the officers could be coached. He was of the opinion that if Ene difficulty of obtaining men who could send clearly could be surmounted, it would pay the owners to put in wireless.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18150, 13 August 1924, Page 10
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